OF ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL. 367 



Monthly admissions* — of the 1322 there were admitted: 



January 127 May 130 September 79 



February — 144 June gs October 98 



March 128 July 105 November.... gg 



April 126 August 112 December 81 



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^„ , , 6l3 Male Patients 



Of the 1322, < „ , 



709 Female 



656 came from the Town of Cambridge. 



666 came from the Country, principally Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely. 



Description of Patients: 



Male. 

 .'i07 (50 per cent.) Labourers, chiefly agricultural. 



613 



• The number of admissions in any one month is not determined solely by the greater 

 or less prevalence of illness, but by other circumstances also, as the facility in obtaining 

 recommendations for admissions, which is not the same at all seasons of the year, and the state 

 of the weather being favourable or unfavourable for the conveyance of patients to the Hospital, 

 'i'he number of admissions is always lower in September, in consequence of the subscribers 

 having then, for the most part, exhausted their recommendations ; an unfortunate circumstance, 

 since at this season so much illness usually prevails. In the present year, the admission 



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